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Originally Posted by mrbeast
Putin is in the process of creating a very statist government and political system in Russia. This involves the strengthening of government control over some sectors. He is attempting to improve Russia's standing as a world power hence all the naval muscle flexing and provocative bomber flights, the internet attacks, the diplomatic spats with the UK and the use of energy resources to gain leverage over countries it regards as being in its sphere of influence.
But I've seen no evidence of a socialist state in creation at all. Authoritarian? Yes. Communist? No.
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Couldn't have summed it up any better. I only would add that Russia probbaly cannot be understood or judged by scales of western or any other poltiical rulers and standards and schemes. It will never be like European "democracies", and will not be like american "democracy", and it will not be anything else there is in the world. Russia is Russia. Only from that perspective one can find sense in trying to understand it's history, and present, and forseeable future. trying to descriobe and judge it by western categories will lead nowhere.